Posts Tagged ‘pub’

Dotes: 1970s pub life

09May13

I recently had a great letter from 74-year-old Ged who gave permission to publish this anecdote from his life as a publican. * I have just found your excellent blog A Voice in the Corner. I have a short true story from circa 1974. My then wife and I took over a Pub in a […]


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Red Bottom, Red Face, Red Lion

12Oct12

Yesterday I began the epic task of cataloguing my picture collection to make finding illustrations easier to find. As I suspected, this was a task that was long overdue, a fact confirmed when I found the picture above. I don’t remember ever seeing it before or where it came from. It may have come in […]


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